Sentences with phrase «messy problems of life»

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In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Which illustrates the problem with Gladwell perfectly: crafting a series of stories into a compelling argument is not easy; life is too messy for that.

I felt as though I was watching the slow decline of Kate's character — Her bike is stolen, relationships didn't work out for her, she was downsizing to a smaller apartment, she was messy and sloppy in her living conditions and relationships (she didn't rush her friend to the hospital when he hurt himself helping her move), she was about to lose her best friend to marriage (where she would have no place), she was starting to sleep around with the guys at work, her job was going nowhere, she was shallow, and if she continued to drink at the same rate she'd most likely incur health problems, lose her job and wind up living under a freeway overpass.

My involvement in the upcoming Vilardell v. Dunham appeal and extended reflection on the difficult task of facilitating fair and efficient resolutions to messy and multi-faceted life problems brought me to the writings of modern thinkers like Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas and George Ritzer.

The reality, however, is that real life problems tend to be messy and complex and may involve multiple areas of law with lots of issues and complicating factors with there being no obvious, defining body of cases or commentary limited to the particular problem.

Then after a little bit of cursing, spraying paint basically everywhere trying to fix the problem and one panicked meltdown, we realized that we'd have to stop, wait for the paint to dry, clean up all of the messy airless sprayer stuff and live to sand and paint again another day.